Richard & Sandra van Dillen Holland 10 December, 2010
PRAISES
1. 1. Thanks so much for your prayers for Manisha, Vikash, and their 18 month old baby, Rikash, because they are now living in their very own apartment. Richard was able to move them with several trips in the past 3 days. I helped Manisha with Rikash and some shopping. Manisha said that Rikash slept through the night in their new apartment and was peaceful for the first time since his birth in June of 2008.
2. 2. Parvin (Muslim convert and sister of Zari) received several Christian books & 2 DVD’s in Farsi for Sinterklaasdag last Sunday from Allyn & Diane (also missionaries with Christar who worked several years in Iran). Allyn is in charge of the Christar workers who are ministering among Muslims & Hindus in the states. Parvin’s face lit up like a child’s does on Christmas morning when she received the gifts.
3. 3. Grace (a faithful Hindustani believer that we led to the Lord in 1995) called us on Wednesday evening and offered us free tickets she got from her work to the professional Dutch musical production of Mary Poppins! This was our first time to go to a professional theater as a couple since 1997(before the death of Dad van Dillen). Dad gave us tickets to a Broadway show in 1995 and then to the Dutch production of The Phantom of the Opera in 1997. What a blessing to spend an evening in a Dutch professional theater with some of our Hindustani Christian friends.
4. 4. The 3 other PD’s and Amber will be flying to Holland in one week and arriving at Schipol airport in just 8 short days!
5. 5. I spoke with little Soenita (Hindu) and her Muslim Hindustani boyfriend Ivan Vijzel for an hour and a half last night. They plan to visit us soon. Soenita went through a nasty divorce two years ago from an insane radical Hindu. He went to prison for faking terrorist acts at Hindu temples to give Muslims a bad name. He actually threatened to murder her 3 different times in 7 years with a huge carving knife.
6. 6. Rio (Paul-Duffy’s good friend from Christian High School in El Cajon, CA) is home and is turning 18 today. Paul-Duffy is happy to be able to see his good friend again after 9 months. We praise the Lord that Rio’s relationship with the Lord is stronger!
PRAYER
1. Vikash gave Manisha a Hindu idol as a wedding gift in 2008. He insisted that the idol be placed on a shelf in their living room. Although Vikash is not a practicing Hindu, his mother, Bea, is. Please pray for this young couple to come to Christ and to be able to realize the emptiness of their idols and Hindu gods.
2. Please pray that Zari would be open to watching the Farsi Christian DVDs with her sister Parvin. Zari grew up a Muslim in Iran and converted to Christianity here in Holland through our ministry. She later joined an Iranian Sufi Muslim sect. She worships their charismatic leader even after his recent death. Zari says she still believes in Jesus. Many Muslims say this, but they do not believe in the Jesus of the Bible. Please pray for God to use the Farsi DVDs and Parvin’s testimony to bring Zari back to the truth.
3. We delivered some Dutch evangelical Christmas cards that Richard made to Muslim Hindustanis in the neighborhood. Unfortunately in the past three years some of our Muslim friends have moved and we do not have a forwarding address. Please pray that God would enable us to somehow reconnect with these Hindustani Muslim friends from the PD’s boys soccer teams (Dynamo 67) soon.
4. Please pray for us to be able to borrow 2 bicycles for Perry-David and Amber to use in Den Haag for the 2 weeks during Christmas and New Year’s that they are here. We bike to our Dutch church (6 miles one way) and everywhere we go. Patrice Danielle and Paul-Duffy still have their old bikes.
5. Please pray that the Lord would use the trials in Soenita &Ivan Vijzel’s horrific pasts to open their hearts to the love of Christ.
6. Patrice Danielle needs prayer to be able to get out of the 9 month housing contract with The King’s College. We can’t afford to send her there for the spring semester since our FASFA grant was much less than we anticipated.
7. Pray for Rio, Paul-Duffy, Ronnie, and Ashley to always put Jesus first in their young lives and to be good testimonies at their secular college.
8. EXAM WEEK! Please pray for Patrice Danielle who has to write four final papers for college English, history, government, and logic. Please pray for Paul-Duffy to get at least a B on his philosophy final so he can pass his difficult philosophy course. Pray for him to do very well on his projects for acting and art and to get an A on his German final.
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